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Richard Tallent’s occasional blog

The Obama Hype

The Republican Party has, once again, lost my vote. I refuse to vote for the lessor of two evils. So I’m now paying more attention to Clinton and Obama, and deciding whether to cast my vote in the DNC primary this time around. I’m not a Kos fan, but I thought this was an interesting comparison of the candidates’ Senate records. Read more →

Religion vs. Science

This is why I stuff my ears whenever someone tries to use religious arguments (of whatever persuasion) to prove their “scientific” views. This is also a prime example of why modern “news” programs suck. Where else is the village idiot always given equal air time? Read more →

Why I’m not yet for Barack, but might be later

Here are some great thoughts from Mr. Lessig on why he supports Obama over Clinton. But I think we’re missing the point about “change.” We’ve seen the “change” that one President can bring when he does not respect the balance of powers. A few “changes” come to mind: $400 billion deficits, trashed civil liberties, undeclared wars, recession, poorly-considered appointments, distracted mismanagement of basic services such as emergency response, and promotion of torture for political expediency. Read more →

PolitiFact

Now this is a seriously cool web site: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ They dig into each candidate’s statements about their own record and others and try to give a complete, unbiased analysis of the truthfulness. In a world where “truthy” wins debates, this is a Good Thing. Read more →

McCain admits he doesn’t understand economics

McCain is the front-runner in the Republican Party (the party that is supposed to understand the economy), and yet he admits he doesn’t. Since we’re about to spend a few years in recession and have a massive public deficit, perhaps we should be electing a nerd who understands economics rather than a jock who only understands war. Read more →

Guliani has some balls

His new ad, airing on Fox News (no surprise) in New Hampshire, takes shrill, low-brow propaganda to a whole new level. Must… not…invoke….Godwin’s…Law… Read more →

w00t! Working again…

One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2008 was to get my blog back up, in one form or another. I finally figured out what went wrong with my MySQL upgrade this morning, got everything upgraded and configured, and even recovered my latest posts. If anyone out there is an expert on Apache redirects, I would love some help on getting my old dasBlog posts imported into WordPress and redirected from their original URLs. Read more →